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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

The larger the organization, the more tension with conflicting functional metrics making decisions more difficult. Inventories increased by 44% due to supply chain volatility. Inventories grew year-over-year by 43%. Coming off a period of high growth, companies are struggling with margins and inventory. See the pattern?

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Trying to Push Content Above the Noise

Supply Chain Shaman

We talk about the move from functional metrics to a balanced scorecard, but we don’t use a balanced scorecard as an objective function. Orbit charts of four companies for the period of 2013-2022 at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. We talk about complexity, but do not measure the impact on forecastability.

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AI in the Retail Industry: Benefits, Case Studies & Examples

ThroughPut

Every aspect of operations, be it managing the inventory, forecasting demand or fulfilling orders was dependent on human wisdom and intuition. Besides, AI is helping retailers optimize inventory, warehouse and pricing. AI-driven robots help improve in-store inventory tracking and management.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement.

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

In the recent study of the Voice of the Supply Chain Leader , we find that the gaps are large, and growing. I recently presented this slide to a group of consultants, and a person that I love in the audience raised his hand and said, “Lora, let’s just face it. Service level is our most important metric.

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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results. Recently, I was presenting to a supply chain team in Europe.